Second Nature explores issues related to culture, identity, artifice, habit, ideology, and everyday life. It is produced by George Mason University's Cultural Studies PhD Program and highlights key works and topics in the field, student and faculty research, special guest interviews, and other discussions of cultural studies.
Second Nature
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Second Nature explores issues related to culture, identity, artifice, habit, ideology, and everyday life. It is produced by George Mason University's Cultural Studies PhD Program and highlights key works and topics in the field, student and faculty research, special guest interviews, and other discussions of cultural studies.
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October 25, 2022
Episode 12: Spring 2022 Colloquium Series w/ Dr. Chris Nealon
<p>As part of GMU's Cultural Studies colloquium series in Spring 2022, a recent Cultural Studies graduate, Dr. Richard Todd Stafford, interviews John Dewey Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Christopher Nealon. Dr. Nealon's research focuses on the relation between literary and economic understandings of value, and their implications for academic antihumanism. He is the author of The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century, and Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, as well as four books of poems, The Joyous Age, Plummet, Heteronomy, and The Shore. He currently serves as Senior Editor of ELH for Johns Hopkins University.</p>
September 13, 2022
Episode 11: Spring 2022 Colloquium Series w/ Dr. Katherine Hite
<p>As part of GMU's Cultural Studies colloquium series in Spring 2022, PhD candidate Eric Ross interviews Professor of Political Science on the Frederick Thompson Chair and Faculty Director of Research Development at Vassar College, Dr. Katherine Hite. Her recent work focuses on the politics of memory, as well as issues in higher education, access and equity. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Ford Foundation. Her teaching interests include the politics of the Americas, social movements, the politics of memory, and the legacies of violence for states and societies around the globe. She is also a co-founder of Celebrating the African Spirit, a Poughkeepsie-based community organization.</p>
April 14, 2022
Episode 10: Spring 2022 Colloquium Series w/ Dr. Amaka Okechukwu
<p>As part of GMU's Cultural Studies colloquium series in Spring 2022, second-year PhD student Carl Leak interviews Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University., Dr. Amaka Okechukwu. Dr. Okechukwu’s research agenda concerns the intersection of collective action and racial justice, as well as urban spatial politics. In this interview, Dr. Okechukwu talks about her work surrounding the historiography of Freddy "Fab Five Freddy" Brathwaite, an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer, and what tracing his genealogy reveals about Black urban life in the twentieth century. </p>
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